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Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ) Interim Response to FOIA Request Seeking the Presidential Policy Memorandum and Memoranda Concerning the Use of Lethal Force Abroad in "Collective Self-Defense"

Document Date: October 17, 2023

Includes enclosures of the Memorandum Opinion for the Counsel to the President regarding the April 2018 Airstrikes Against Syrian Chemical-Weapons Facilities (Document dated May 31, 2018) and the Memorandum for John A. Eisenberg, Legal Advisor to the National Security Council, regarding the January 2020 Airstrike in Iraq Against Qassem Soleimani (Document dated March 10, 2020).

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